Waste in government is a given. Departments are encouraged to spend it or lose it. Which means waste it or your annual budget increases will be lower (see also, “drastic cuts”). So finding unspent money in any department is easy. If you apply yourself, you can free-up billions of dollars. The Pentagon just did that.
They created a list of DoD construction projects with unused money. Allocated but not spent. And yes, Democrats are flipping out. Because of Trump. They refuse to let him win. And they’ll get states, run by Democrats, to file suits, or whatever it takes to slow this down or stop it. But the money is leftover from existing or completed projects.
Show Me The Money
Legal Insurrection shared the Pentagon’s Guidelines to protect any actual new or necessary work.
To identify the potential pool of sources of military construction funds, DoD will apply the following criteria:
• No military construction projects that already have been awarded and no military construction projects with FY 2019 award dates will be impacted.
• No military housing, barracks, or dormitory projects will be impacted.
• The pool of potential military construction projects from which funding could be reallocated to support the construction of border barrier are solely projects with award dates after September 30, 2019.
For comprehensiveness, attached is a complete pool of all projects that were unawarded as of December 31, 2018. Once the above criteria is applied, the pool has a total value that is in excess of the amount needed to source potential section 2808 projects. The appearance of any project within the pool does not mean that the project will, in fact, be used to source section 2808 projects.
The money is sitting there. It is in the budget for national defense. But Democrats don’t want to defend Americans from a human-trafficking, heroin, illegal alien invasion. The criminality, identity theft, child-sexual abuse, rape, and murder are a small price they are willing to make you pay. Much like babies who survive abortion, any loss of life that advances their agenda is acceptable to them.
Especially if you are standing in their path to power.
